Scotty 2 Hotty Recalls Getting Paired With Brian Christopher, Their Run as Too Cool During the Attitude Era

During a recent interview with Insight with Chris Van Vliet, former WWE Superstar Scotty 2 Hotty discussed his Too Cool pairing with the late Brian Christopher and their run during the Attitude Era.

The tag team was initially presented as Too Much before they were later rebranded as Too Cool, known for their breakdancing gimmick. Below are some highlights from Insight:

On Getting Paired With Brian Christopher

“So we were just thrown together. I signed in February of ’97, and I’d been there a whole year, and then right before WrestleMania of ’98 in Boston, I was sitting home. So, being a guy who grew up in Maine, being a Northeastern guy, to have WrestleMania in Boston and be on the show. So I’m sitting home, and I think it was Wednesday before WrestleMania. I had been home for weeks or months, and they hadn’t done anything with me up to this point, so I’m ready to get released at any point.

“I get a call from Russo, and he said, ‘We need you in Boston on Friday to do this. They’re going to do this outdoor show,’ which ended up being the DX workout with Tyson. I wrestled Taka Michinoku on the show, we wrestled each other, and then they do the tag team battle royal, which I think was the first match on WrestleMania 14, and they just threw Brian and me in that match together, for no rhyme or reason. He was a heel, I was a babyface up to that point. We had wrestled each other a bunch of times, and all of a sudden we just thrown into this match as a tag team. It made no sense whatsoever.”

Scotty 2 Hotty on Their Run as Too Much Before Becoming Too Cool

“I think it was about a year, about a year. I remember being in Nassau Coliseum, and Vince Russo came up to us, and he said, ‘Hey, we want to change your character up. We want you guys to kind of do what the Hardy Boys did, where they went from tights to street clothes, and we want you to dress like the kids are dressing in the malls.’ That was the only direction we got. So we were in next week. We’re in Springfield, Massachusetts. Brian and I go out. We walk outside the arena. We find these shops, and they’re hip-hop shops. Okay, we can’t really wear tight jeans, but they have these baggy jeans. We could wear those in the ring because you get knee pads and knee braces and all that good stuff underneath them, and still be able to wrestle in them. So that was what we ended up doing.”

On Their Run During the Attitude Era

“So it was May of ’99. We did a backstage thing for Sunday Night Heat that was going to air the following Sunday. So we filmed this on Tuesday, saying, ‘Too much is no more. We’re now Too Cool.’ The next day, we’re in Portland, Maine, of all places, on a house show, wrestling D’Lo Brown and Mark Henry. Brian tears his ACL. Oh man, we were just starting this new character; we just filmed that thing last night that’s supposed to air this Sunday, and then I thought, sure enough, they’re not going to air it, or there’s no point airing it. Brian’s going to be out for at least six months. They aired it, still played. So now we’re Too Cool. The whole Too Cool thing is Vince Russo’s idea.

“While Brian’s out with the ACL injury, Russo goes to WCW. So I’m sitting home. I see Russo shows up on WCW. Oh no, the guy who pitched the idea to us is gone, but they bring us back in; I think it was October of 99. We show up on Raw as Too Cool. Either we jumped Edge and Christian or the Hardys. I don’t remember, but whatever team it wasn’t did a run-in, and the Hollys came in to set up for Survivor Series 99, where it was Too Cool, the Hollys against Edge and Christian and the Hardys, and so that was October, and then Rikishi was put with us in December, and then here’s the crazy thing. So Rikishi Too Cool didn’t start till December; that iconic moment in the Royal Rumble where the three of us danced together was four weeks later.”

On How Long Their Run Lasted

“I think it was whenever Brian got released. So we were together all of 2000; I think it was 2001 that he got released.”

On Their Time With Rikishi

“Rikishi Too Cool wasn’t even a year because Rikishi was put with us in December of 99. December of 2000, he had turned on us and was wrestling Austin at the pay-per-view in December.”